, or Caponniere, in Fortification, is a passage made from one work to another, of 10 or 12 feet wide, and about 5 feet deep, covered on each side by a parapet, terminating in a glacis or slope. Sometimes it is covered with planks and earth.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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